I watched "The Watchmen"

The world will look up and shout, "Save us.", and I'll whisper, "No."

I watched this movie on DVD a few months ago.  I wasn't really expecting much but was surprised that they did a fair job capturing the essence of the late eighties graphic novel.  The movie like the graphic novel explores the dark side of the comic book hero mythology in the back drop of an alternate reality 1985. Nickson is president for a fourth term and someone has just killed the hero, the Comedian.  He had worked for the government but his more famous associations were the Watchmen, a now a defunct group of vigilantes who have moved on since "masked" heroes have been declared criminal.  Four other members of the Watchmen remain but of them only one is obsessively on the case to find out who has launched this conspiracy against the Watchmen and perhaps the world on the brink of a nuclear holocaust.

I liked how the story breaths depth into the heroes and make them believable and that essentially under the costume there's a living breathing person with the potential everyone carries to walk the line of good and evil.  Definitely a good watch for the more intellectual comic book aficionado and definitely not for the faint of heart.  The director did not pull any punches and the chick in the leather suit is pretty agile. Hallelujah.